Faculty Fellow
E. Summerson Carr
Biography
E. Summerson Carr works between cultural, linguistic, and medical anthropology to study how ideas, logics, norms and values are authorized, enacted, institutionalized, and scaled as expertise. She conducts her fieldwork in the United States, where experts influence most every aspect of contemporary life, if often in the face of significant public skepticism. Her research focuses on professions that take human behavior and interiority as the object of their expertise: social work, counseling psychology, and behavioral health. Dually appointed in the Crown School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, she works to illuminate how the helping professions distill historically traceable debates and predominant logics about agency, care, communication, (in)dependence, personhood, presence, science, and truth.
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